Dying Light 2: Stay Human (ROUND 1)
scent of the day: Nectar Thai SE (Semi-Bespoke: 1gr of vintage Cambodi Thaqeel Oud), by Elkhaldi
A yellow-floral oud fragrance that I am impressed by. Only 5 made. If you felt that Sayat Nova was not oudy enough, this gets you right where you want to be. There are tobacco elements like Sayat. In both it comes from green-hay narcissus plus a variety of ouds. Nectar Thai SE has both Thai and Cambodian ouds and, despite their various differences (Thai more moldy and Cambodian more honey sweet), they both give a shared tobacco-nutty fruitiness. Sayat goes more vanilla-rum gourmand. Nectar Thai goes more earthy-nutty animalic.
The strict oud woodiness is more prominent here (ancient logs) than in Sayat. Nectar Thai is also definitely more skanky—not overtly but the civet I love from Elkhaldi is here and boosted in its urinous side by an ammonia-mineralic hyraceum while still being restrained by the strong leather: a result from the combo of apricot-suede osmanthus and oiled-mitt castoreum.
The musk works with heliotrope to give a powdery dough impression made even cozier by the milkyness of the wool and the peach and the sandalwood. The Thai oud in here is fruity, which really synergizes with the dewy-nectar honeysuckle and the velvety-lactonic peach and the cherry-pie heliotrope
*Let’s workshop this poem about the uneasy possibility that a radical change in human appearance might unsettle even the most hardened bigot into loving what he was taught to hate.
Dying Light 2: Stay Human
Yesterday’s Klansman would have made an honest lady of any black girl, piggybacking
her “gator bait” babies around town if need be, before putting his cock anywhere near
today’s Kardashian trout face: zombie-eyed polymer calibrated for friction, not fidelity.
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)
